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Patented Apr. 7, 1925.

ABRAHAM HOYT LEVY, OF NEW YORK, N- Y.

CONTAINER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM HOYT Law, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at the borough of Manhattan, in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Containers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in containers, and particularly to improve ments in containers in which are delivered, for consumption, goods that are used up gradually or consumed piece by piece. Among articles of this kind may be named fluxes for use in soldering, shaving-soap in the form of sticks, and lozenges. It has been common heretofore to wrap soldering flux in paper-foil or foil of paper-thinness; and, after a little use of the stick of flux, the foil-like coating thereof would wear away. The flux being essentially of a greasy .nature, the parts of the stick that became exposed by wear of the foil would come into contact with the users hand, which would be soiled as a result of such contact. In the case of lozenges, such as breath-deodorizers, the containers that it has been common to use heretofore have been of such a nature as to give away, after a few of the lozenges have been taken from the package; and the result has been generally that the remaining lozenges of the package have been lost or made; worthless for use. It is an object of this invention to provide a container for soldering flux and the like which will avoid the defects just mentioned of prior containers and which will be wearresisting and tough and yet of such strength that its enclosing wall may be readily removed, as from time to time will become necessary, in order to expose a new section of the contents of the package and to make the same available for consumption and use. Another object of this invention is to provide a conta ner of the type just referred to which will be simple in construction, cheap in manufacture and efficient in use for the purpose intended.

In the drawings illustrating the princi-v ple of this invention and the best mode now known to me of applying that principle, Fig. 1 is an elevation of one form of this invenion; and Fig. 2 illustrates, in similar view, another form of this invention.

The material of which the container A Application filed March 14, 1922. Serial No. 543,788. I

is made is metal, which is drawn into the shape shown in the figures; and the metals believed to be particularly well adapted for the purpose are lead and tin. The base a is made of solid metal; and, from this base a, there extends the tubular member or holder 6 that is adapted and designed to recelve the goods or wares or merchandise to be consumed. The based and the receptacle b are integral with each each other and together they constitute the container A, The wall of the tubular body I) is thin enough to permit of its being torn along the light cuts 0 shown in Fig. 1, or along the grooves 61 illustrated in Fig. 2. By the provision of these cuts 0 (or grooves 03) enough of the wall of the tube 1) may readily be torn or peeled, from oil the open end thereof, to expose a new section of the goods, for consumption or use, as the same are used up in the manner intended. But the wall of the tubular body I) is also thick enough to resist rupture due to bending and like deformation to which the wall may be subjected in the ordinary use of the device for the purpose intended. It is to be noted that there are no seams formed in the tube 6, a feature that contributes to its toughness without excemive thickness of wall.

Ifthe material held in the receptacle 6 be a stick of soldering flux (shown at e in Fig. 1), the hands of the user will be protected from contact with and soiling by the stick of flux, such protection being afi'orded by the wear-resisting wall 6 of the holder. WVhen the exposed end of the stick of flux 6 has melted away so that it is necessary to expose a new section at the end of the stick a, it is required only to tear off or peel away one of the annular bands or rings f (the ring at the open end of thetube b naturally), along the light cut a formed in the wall of the tube. If the goods contained in the receptacle b are lozenges g, (Fig. 2), for example, which are used one by one, the lozenge 9 next to be consumed may be exposed by peeling off the ring or annular section it of the wall 6 at the open end of the receptacle, and the lozenge g is 'made instantly available for use, while the remaining lozenges of the package continue to be held securely enclosed in the container. Deterioration and waste are thus prevented.

In order to prevent soiling the hands by contact with the wall 6 of the/container, the handhold a is joined to the tubular body-portion by a neck or reduced portion a), so that there is prox'ided a gap betweemthe handhold a and the opposed end of the tubular body-portion b. The fingers are thus kept from contact with the latter. By making the handhold integral with the body-portion, strength is imparted to resist rupture in case the container is used for the application of its contents, particularly wherever the surface with which the material is brought in contact, is a moving surface.

I claim:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a container for goods in the form of a block, stick, lozenge or the like, including a seamless, tubular body-portion the wall of which is thin enough to permit manually peeling the wall off the goods without cutting in order to expose a new end-section thereof for consumption and yet thick enough to withstand wear tending to expose the goods in the ordinary usage of the container for the purpose intended; the body-portion being provided with a handheld which is formed integral with the container and is connected therewith by a neckportion which at its junction with the handhold is much smaller in diameter than the latter and is surrounded there with a flange that shields the fingers from contacting with the body portion and neck-portion and becoming soiled.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a container according to claim 1., characterized v in that the wall of the seamless tubular bodyportion is divided into bands to facilitate the manual peeling of the wall off the goods in order to expose a new end-section thereof for consumption. a

Signed at the borough of Brooklyn, in the city of New York, county of Kings and State of New York, this 10th day of March, 192-2, in the presence of the two undersigned witnesses.

A. HOYT LEVY. Witnesses OSCAR K. Cuoss, A. GOLDMAN. 

